Publication Date:
2012-11-14
Description:
Although macrophages are widely recognized to have a profibrotic role in inflammation, we have used a highly tractable CCl4-induced model of reversible hepatic fibrosis to identify and characterize the macrophage phenotype responsible for tissue remodeling: the hitherto elusive restorative macrophage. This CD11Bhi F4/80int Ly-6Clo macrophage subset was most abundant in...
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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